The question is in the book the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway what does it mean when the old man says " man is not much besides the great birds and the beasts"? make sure to write two paragraphs with about 8-12 sentences in each on why that is, i'm so confused i don't understand this book at all!

(…) His determination to kill him ever relaxed in his sorry for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him [the fish] ? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.

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